Bug#740281: quickbrown.txt License question

[Florian Schlichting <fsfs@debian.org>]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:51:31AM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> I would be happy to release any copyright that I might share in this
> file under e.g. a Creative Commons Attribution licence, but I
> am not confident that Creative Commons is suitable for a compilation
> of samples. I am not even sure that single-sentence pangrams
> fall under copyright legislation: they are at the very short end of
> what might count as a work of authorship.
> 
> If it had been a piece of example code, I would have simply added the line
> 
>   License: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/short-license.html
> 
> which links to a page that explains my political reluctance to add
> formal copyright licences to work that is probably far too short and
> trivial to fall under copyright legislation.

Thanks a lot for your detailed email. I think the short-license page
nicely explains both your motivation and how to interpret your intention
in terms of Free Software licenses, so I'll see if I can run with that.

Florian